Author note: Obviously I own nothing but my plot. Sometime in this story, there will be narrative shifts usually the whole chapter will be dedicated to it. Sometimes it will seem like filler or unimportant to the plot, and sometimes it will feel like fluff. Everything is written as a valid point or it wouldn't be in the story. As always constructive criticism is always appreciated and welcomed. In this chapter, we're going to hear the inner monologue of the great royal scientist. That's right we're going to be talking about Alphys. Sorry about the exposition dump but Alphys thinks in facts and logic and the only opinionated thoughts she has is when she's thinking about anime, the few live actions show she watches, and few music interests she listens to. If it's not personal joys? she can be very factual, reasonable and logical even in her own head... But she has her moment of quirkiness. I take that aspect from the moments that shine out in my memory of no shame the body pillow and the trash can in a dress.

The break of dawn or at least the mockery of one was rising in the horizon of Snowden. How long has it been since anyone see true sunshine to witness the majesty of the suns embrace on their soul? No matter what you create with magic you can't recreate something you've only seen in the manga, comics, and the occasion cassette and DVD you find at the dump. The real thing needs to be experienced before trying a facsimile. Right now, wasn't about waxing poetic in my thoughts. I still had all the jobs to oversee as my position royal scientist. Plus, its early the only people up this early was the prince and me. It was getting close to six am at least according to the clock on the wall.

I was watching the screens videotaping the entire inhabited section of the underground. Right now, I was focused on Snowdin and its forest. I just couldn't sleep I had been woken up from nightmares.

I remember the day vividly when King Sans was forced to rename and relocate a few monsters and needing to rename the town altogether. The town couldn't stay Sunnyvale now that it was a perpetual winter now, can it? While the weather machine was stuck on the winter setting worse it was above the ground twisting and flying at the top of the cavern till this day and on more than one occasion we have tried to capture it. To no avail, it seems to have a mind of its own. The machine I believe it became a bit more sentient and has a sense of self-preservation.

Getting the position of the royal scientist was a tough work and there were more than a dozen monsters where qualified. The person who would take the position from Jared had to be gifted King Sans himself is well knowledgeable on science he was apprentice to the first royal scientist who I can't remember all I remember is that after a century of being underground he tasked the position of royal scientist to Jared telling him the plans he has and how to deal with the expansions when he took the leadership role he took it seriously though every time I converse with him he seems lackadaisical and relaxed and ease but the minute he's on the clock or it's about the underground he becomes serious the joking and lazy attitude is something you can even see on him. Ever since my promotion its most of what I see him that way he's all business. And about making sure the monster population not only survives but is able to thrive over the time we have been trapped here. Without the ability to farm and the surplus of food? I doubt we would have survived without monster kind being weakened, unhealthy and magically weakened. It's all theories but I can at least create a viable virtual model. Something that was upsetting as I did the model it seems more desperate and lack of survival. The way the virtual model works is that based on the population of a monster kind when we banished down here up until now with conditions and the outcome. If farming in the underground wasn't viable it's one of the main ways, we were able to prosper. They lack in the ability to farm seems to cause malnutrition, which leads to death and lots of monsters falling since their positions would lead for them to need to eat more but have no way too. There would be the mass death of royal guardsmen. Leaving a trickle of them to defend the underground but according to the virtual model based on the lack of power in the underground, the defense of the wards left by the wizards and the king being just as overworked and underfed as everyone? Monster kind lasted in total close to a century underground at least according to the virtual model. The fact we had a steady food source and water source ensured that we not only survived but we able to bounce back from near extinction.

Being the royal scientist has come with regrets. Some of those I refuse to admit or even speak out loud. Things I wish I could do have fixed but its low priority and, on the docket, to be done. Things that I wish I could do but I just don't have the manpower nor could ask a few of the royal guard to stop their routines to help me out for this. I wish I could remove the machine the original location of my original lab was there due to quiet environment ample materials. But at least we were able to find space to make a substantial farming community regardless it prevents the famine. With the ability to grow basic crops and have livestock we are the largest monster population has been since the war with more than hundred thousand monsters living down here now. But with that, I had to leave my lab and I gave it to the king to do with as he sees fit. I had to move the building being cold-blooded monster has its disadvantages. I had to move to the more populated heated heights but at least it's not the capital or the swamp where their amount monsters there are too many to count. Alphys sat down reflecting her past work, while she finishes the design of her latest corporeal body specs.

I will have to send it to the engineers while she still creates invention things like ghost bodies can be handled by the lab engineers. I must make fifty bodies all specialized some want to be robots like Mettaton or Napstablook who were my premier ghost corporeal bodies and showed the others to have faith. If you want a proper body all you need do is, ask though a few have come to me after trying merge with training dummy made of cotton and fabric usually gave a body than what they settled for. For the two who came to me recently, I gave them similar bodies one was very shy and timid, but he wanted knights armor for his robotic body because he wanted to join the Royal guard. The other wanted to be a mannequin. He was haughty and manic. Constantly spouting off angrily he said he wanted to be a model. It's why he picked dummy in the first place, but the body wouldn't merge. So, he was reduced to asking for my help procuring a body that would merge.

The first stayed behind I found out his name Declan the shy ghost that he was he ended up joining the anime viewing club I run on weekends. The other Mathias, they manic and angry ghost, on the other hand, I sent to Mettaton himself after I finish his body and made sure the body could articulate the way he would need to model the way he liked to. He originally wanted to be a dummy trying for the longest to bad results. He still had the gritty determination he's lucky he didn't die from his own desperate desire from trying to merge with such giving him something other than ratty and ugly one made of cotton completely moth bitten and covered in ticks. He was determined to live with helped thinks along Mettaton I knew needed more models for his fashion show in a few weeks male models are hard to come by actors not so much. One of my lab assistants jumped at the chance to be a part of Mettaton show the kid showed promise but that kids' heart wasn't in science. Look at me calling someone kid I just got into my mid-twenties you'd think I was centuries old with the way I talk but I've been the royal scientist since I was eighteen and hand-selected to take the place of my aging replacement Jared. He was a cactus monster very bossy. I was kind of glad when he retired but was a bit shocked I got the position. Am I mad about it happening to me? No. Who doesn't like a promotion and being recognized for the few achievements have made. Also, the freedom to research and invent to my heart's content.

Even with the promotion and everything while I'm not anxious or anything. I still incredibly shy. I act as a much as manager as the head scientist creating sub-teams who follow my plans for improvements. Engineers (the many sub-teams that entails, biological research and development, botanical research, a weapons specialist. And I was able to hire a group Temmies to for their armor expertise since they are naturally drawn to blacksmithing and armor creation they made the original armor for the royal guard during the war something that it felt was lost to time. They are the big hand at making unique armor for the royal that takes their personal biology into account. Something no one thought about for a few centuries since we spent so much time worrying about basic survival the constant threat of annihilation that protective armor was the last thing on our minds at this point much less armor, or clothing for every biome within the underground.

Robotic possessable bodies, and elevator connecting Evergreen and Snowdin, I created the trains that will be used in the new connection system. I may have not been the originator that was the grand duchess who wanted it and had drawn up and overseen most its construction at least of the rails and the tunnels. The trains development and the power sources where all me and that's the thing. I've had my hiccups things I won't admit against the wishes of the kings and my than superior buts it not like the few bad things could ever come back to haunt me. I try to focus on the screen right now we were still interview for the monster who want the position since it was a job where you had to very focus on the camera to not get distracted by. Or for guards who can serve directly.

For every city, we need about ten monsters able to watch the cameras and ready to report a disturbance, on the coms. It seemed ridiculous but with the missing children and the number of attacks that seem to increase in frequency, it seems like we need to heightened security around all of the underground.

I was just about to start munching on the chips when I noticed someone I didn't recognize, and I knew immediately was a human. Everyone is already accounted for and Chara the only person who would be wearing a cloak would know not to wear a coat over it and the eyes said everything to me. But what to do what to do. Humans can be dangerous if left unchecked but to tell the royal guards while they just set their routine to seem almost frivolous and a waste of their time and their energy. I think I might have a better alternative. With that, she started making quick calls, but she left some details she wanted to see what the human would. With the hood, she can try to pretend to be a vampire they are the more human-looking monsters which make sense. She is pulling off half of the typical stance of a vampire. I have a few of them working under me and they are introvert only speaking if they have something to say, not outgoing loving the quiet circles they make and love the dark places.

You would think with the amount of time I spend talking to Undyne as the captain of the royal guard I would be a lot more comfortable with her than I actually am. we discuss armor upgrade and things to use within training and weapons for her troops. But when I find the nerve to ask her out it overwhelms. Like the initial crush that I had on Mettaton that has faded in the centuries since I built but the friendship we built is more or less still intact and he encourages and pushes me to say how I feel. And has more than once updated my wardrobe having bitsy to give the clothes from the new line she made with Mettaton. It's been a while since Mettaton has ramped up his entertainment and his brand since other monsters have been trying to unseat his position of the star of the underground. Making dramas, romances and sitcoms to compete with Mettaton. Others have decided to go the route of videotape things like the things they have found at the dump. I know they have taken the opportunity to do that any media they find converting it to a format for everyone to see on tv. I know I've been grateful when someone found a box set with more than a dozen animes in one find and which caused of appreciation in just something new to watch. same with the CDs and the magazine and the occasional magazines and mangas. Thiers been talks of original animations and talks of asking us to develop the technology to make it work. Which I had to assemble a small team who work on the technology for entertainment purposes. They were the originator of Undernet and the browser system we use at the moment. I don't know how I would survive without all the information being backed up on a computer hard drive. though I wish we were able to connect to the internet of the aboveground just because we get their trash and we have monsters who are technically outside doesn't mean we have a full scope of what may await up there.

Maybe if I am right Undyne will come over and thank me personally for helping her locate the human. I can find the courage to ask her out. She just seems out of my league. But doing something like this helping her do her duty give the final subject to get us out of here? Who knows how she sees me after that.

Final note: This is a world that's very different than canon. I want you to imagine an open world version of Undertale. No place is out of bounds or inaccessible. Though certain things have changed the fast travel system in Snowdin. I'm turning it into an elevator of what kind we'll see but I want this to be my image you can make your guesses, but this story has been mapped out till Hot Land or as I renamed it Heated Heights and beyond just saying. Though right now I contemplate where to end this story end. But I'm not the only author with that thought I know. Well, I gave a double upload this month because I'll be on hiatus until December classes are ramping up and I need to focus if I want to pass.